The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

In one reSpec CT Jog Is ml8nGy
like or man. De mo- sense he's got, de
bigger raskil he is.-Arkansaw Trau-
eler.
"A couple recently married at Santa
Rosa, CAL, bore the same family name.
were both the same age, and their
birthdays came on the same date.
1T is curious scientific fact that
all the elements of the poison found in
rattlesnake are inherent in the
common Irish potato.
Nellie Lamb, of Fillmore County,
Neb., aged eleven years and wearing
short dresses, recently ran away from
home with printer name Kelsey.
-Brown-"How your eyes flashed
while you were talking to Miss De We're,
Jonesr' Jones-"Of course they did
my boy. I was sparkling"
"A grown turkey, belonging to Mrs.
G. B. Beecher, of Griffin, Ca, swallowed
bee few days ago, which stung its
vitals, and in less than an hour it was
stone dead.
If hens be at liberty 100 are enough
for an acre, but if confined of course an
acre will afford room for much larger
number. In this case, each flock of
ten or twelve hens will require house
eight feet square-say 200 fowls on an
acre.
Lightning struck near tree against
which negro boy was leaning in At
lanta. He whirled around two or three
times and ran. After running some
distance he stopped and went through
the same spinning motion. He has been
crazed ever since.
-''New Orleans women are, without
doubt, the best dressed to be seen any
where" says writer in the New
Orleans Picayune. One fact cited in
evidence is that they do not ignore the
Just claims of economy, this restraint
preventing gaudiness.-Auqusta (Ga.
Chronicle.
Fishing for COMPREHENSIVE
IA everybody's getting too clever
nowadays. l assure you, my chief
object in society is to conceal my
ignorance, and prevent people from
finding out what an abject fool I really
ami" Miss Towers-"And do you
succeedP"-Pusch.
-"Of the ripe age of eighteen" is
what an esteemed Springfield paper
says of a beautiful and accomplished
maiden now visiting at the capital.
This ought to be pleasant reading for
the unfortunate females who have
entered upon the sere and senile years
Of eighteen and twenty Chicago Nea0s.
-'.Say, didn't you tell me when you
sold me that dog that he was bird
dog?" Eyes, that's what I said. -
well, you swindled me. That dog
won't hunt II didn't say he would
hunt. He's bird dog. Cook the birds
for him. That's the way he likes them
best. !" -Newman Independent.
Some years ago an American gram.
marian gave conjugation of the verb
kiss, as follows: 'Buss, to kiss; rebus,
to kiss again; pluribus, to kiss without
regard to number; sillybus, to kiss the
hand instead Of the lips; blunderbuss
to kiss the wrong person; omnibus, te
kiss everybody in the room; erebus. te
kiss in the dark"
George Scott started out to fight q
tame bear in New Hampshire town
the other night on a wager of twenty.
five dollars. Bruin gave him ''side.
winder'' on the ear which broke his jaw
and knocked him senseless, and wher
George came to he packed his valist
and left the country an dog-trot.-
Detroit Free Press.
-"Have you spoken to my daughter
yet?'' asked the old man. mo, sir;
wanted your consent first "WeI,
advise you to give up the idea. dom
believe she would marry you. and i
she did, neither of you would be hap
py." "Why do you think so, STRIP
Because you part your hair in thu
| middle and she parts hers on the side.
Puck.
"A Cincinnati Jew owed a clothing
firm in that city $50 for an overcoat
, which he did not seem inclined to pay
An attorney induced him one day Il
, take Turkish bath, and while he wa
enjoying himself, constable came il
and took all his clothes, not even leav
ing shirt-stud. After three hours
wait, his brother brought him his oil
suit.
"A young New Yorker now on
western ranch, engaged to wealthy
, Brooklyn maiden, in letter to gen
tleman in this city, declares that thing
are not at all rosy in the great AM
, boundless West. He is working as
stable boy, and is glad to find eve
this employment, though it pays bu
little more than the cost of his board
! philadelphia Press.
Very considerable: Miss Edith
, "Why, mamma; hero is motto
/ in the morning paper of the com
!, plete failure of the Widows an
4 Orphans Benefit Insurance Company
, Wasn't that the company that poo
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